If you want to avoid future problems, I suggest you do as I say, make a list of all your documents you got from Bob, send it to me and then return all of these documents to me immediately. Tom Kimmel has told me all about you and I want you to know I won’t hold still for any monkey business from you and if you don’t want the FBI knocking your door down, do as I say.

Putin has to be smiling now, because when you have Donald Trump on your side, you are going places. I wonder if Putin thinks he’ll be able to domesticate The Donald after he’s in the White House? Which alpha will rule? Even more importantly, what nickname will Trump choose for his buddy Vlad? I hope Trump likes vodka, and Putin likes Manhattans.

When you read about Donald Trump’s crazy conspiracy theories, sort what is crazy from what is not. Donald Trump and the journalists who criticize him may not know what they are talking about, but all of them sure act as if they do.

The Donald and his campaign have not created a high standard of professionalism to this point, so I suppose we shouldn’t expect a lot from the party’s performance at its convention in Cleveland. Every four years, party leaders want to show the country how unified they are, ready to do battle with the hated enemy. This year, you can’t tell whom they hate more, their own candidate or the enemy’s.

Wave upon wave of fraud became so rampant among bankers, they gradually and then completely lost confidence in each other. They also – rightly – lost confidence in their assets. The collapse we saw resulted from bankers making a run on each other’s institutions. In the situation they had created, panic was a rational response.